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I agree. US military background in general is the red flag.
Rest of your take is weird. There’s no reason to compare the two especially because the man has done both. I don’t know why you would try to reduce a literal murder down to “well it’s not as bad as rape”. If you’ve killed somebody, I never want you near me. Plain and simple. I don’t care why, you’ve ended someone’s life. Same with a rapist, I don’t care if you’ve “changed”. You’re a dangerous person to be around.
Using that to say murdering foreign children is better is fucking gross dude. Delete this weird ass shit
If you murder someone in the defense of yourself or someone else, you're still a murderer. Like, by definition, you murdered someone. We, as humans, typically excuse murder in these cases. That's why self-defense is a legal and viable defense for murder. You are still a murderer for it, but it is excused because you did it out of some necessity. They ended someone's life, but are they dangerous to be around?
That whole thing doesn't exist for rape. That's why it's a worse crime and not excusable. That's the point.
That's why people are willing to excuse things like being a soldier or having a Nazi tattoo or even being a mercenary, but not raping someone.
You’re making this argument for someone that murdered fucking kids not in self defense and really annoying and gross. Please go away